Evaluation of a national complex oral health improvement programme: a population data linkage cohort study in Scotland.
November 24, 2020
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BMJ
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Kidd JBR, McMahon AD, Sherriff A, Gnich W, Mahmoud A, Macpherson L, Conway DI.
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10:e038116.
EXCERPTS
Strengths and limitations of the study
This is the first population-wide data linkage cohort study to evaluate the reach and impact of a complex public health intervention.
There is evidence of effectiveness of oral health improvement interventions for children including fluoride toothpaste and professionally applied fluoride varnish; however, the evidence of combining these into a complex oral health improvement programme delivered via a proportio